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Flash! American Nazi website Stormfront endorses Al Awda's
Boycott of Jewish businesses and links to Al Awda's
website on the Stormfront website. See:
Sign the petition to boycott Hilton Hotel Corp. for hosting
Al Awda Conference.
HILTON HOTEL CORPORATION HOSTS THE 6th ANNUCAL AL AWDA CONFERENCE
AT THE EMBASSY SUITES AGAIN IN GARDEN GROVE. READ THE LETTER SENT TO
HILTON MANAGEMENT AND THE LINKS INVOLVED THEN JOIN AN INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT OF HILTON OVER SUPPORTING THIS ISM-LINKED ANTI-SEMITIC GROUP THAT ALSO SUPPORTS AL QAEDA:
Christopher Nassetta, President Feb. 3, 2008
Hilton Hotels Corporation
9336 Civic Center Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Dear Mr. Nassetta;
Congratulations on your new post as the head of the Hilton Hotel Corporation. As the new chief of a major corporation, no doubt you feel the buck stops with you, which is the reason for this letter.
We are writing you as a concerned group of Jewish and Christian Americans about an upcoming scheduled international conference scheduled at the Hilton Hotel in Anaheim to be held there by a group known as Al Awda, the Palestine Right of Return Coalition. Prior to your taking over the helm at Hilton last December, and only last year, Al Awda held their international conference at the Embassy Suites Hotel, your subsidiary, next door to the Anaheim Hilton. This year, Al Awda is secretly trying to hold the same conference again only this time at the Anaheim Hilton. We suspect that a catering manager at Hilton is sympathetic to this group, but have bee unable to confirm this.
That previous conference was originally scheduled to take place at UC Riverside, but the campus administration canceled the event after it was revealed to them what Al Awda says and does behind its façade and that its associations are not what they claim they are. Enclosed are some articles and links that were written about the Al Awda conference and previous Al Awda conferences, as well as the attendees and their open support for terrorism, their links to American Nazis due to mutual anti-Semitism, and support for terrorist groups that have attacked the United States such as Hizballah, Hamas and even Al Qaeda.
Al Awda is an openly anti-Semitic organization whose founder has called Jews “a disease” and the purposes of this conference at your hotel are to recruit and train people to 1) Boycott Israeli businesses 2) Boycott American-Jewish and other American-owned businesses that employ Jews in upper management 3) To support the terrorist organization Hamas that has murdered not only Israelis but several American citizens as well 4) To suggest a Jewish conspiracy of Jewish control of America and 5) To voice support for the same Iraqi “resistance” that is killing American soldiers overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other things.
Al Awda publicizes and contributes to anti-Jewish blood libel: Attached you will find an article from the website radioislam.com that is affiliated with Al Awda. Al Awda changed the contents of this page after they were exposed last year at UC Riverside, however, this link on the Web has the archived page:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040910172809/http://radioislam.org/resistance/massacr.htm
Note the page speaks of the “Blood Orgy of the Jewish Devils,” refers to Jews at “Satan’s Soldiers,” and contains a letter at the top from Pastor Ray Redfeairn who was the head of
Aryan Nations (Nazi Party) at the time of posting praising the organization and its work.
The page (which is still up) claiming Jews murdered a 12 year-old Palestinian boy (a story that has long since been proven to be a hoax), if you scroll down, reveals every Al Awda chapter’s actions as part of the Radio Islam promotion. No other groups are listed because this is part of Al Awda’s networks. I recommend you read the entire page, including the many false claims such as this sentence about Jewish law below:
“A Jew who murders a Gentile is guilty only of a sin against the laws of Heaven, not punishable by a court. To cause indirectly the death of a Gentile is no sin at all.”
Such statements as these are commonly spoken inside Al Awda events as long as the press is not within earshot to hear them. This is one reason Al Awda does not permit cameras or recorders from outside parties at their events as they will do at the Hilton.
We also wish to point out to you that this conference is to be an “international conference” bringing in Al Awda affiliates from Europe and the Palestinian Authority. We call your attention to a poem sent out by the Al Awda listserv by Raja Chemayal, an activist with Al Awda in Europe that was written in praise of suicide bombings. Chemayal may attend this international conference. You can see this poem on the Web at this link: http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:fp5JVXXvd7UJ:www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556680/posts+Raja+Chemayal+%2B+Lee+Kaplan&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
The leaders of Al Awda such as Mr. Chemayal have even compared the terrorist leaders of Hamas to Jesus Christ. See this link: http://www.stoptheism.com/?M=&T=312 .
Al Awda’s listserv in the past praised Hizballah, the terrorist organization that murdered 241 marines in Beirut in 1983. The organization continues to praise the Ba’ath Party and al Qaeda insurgents who kill US soldiers in Iraq, something it obscures in doubletalk as “resistance.” see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_(guerrilla_organization).
Other Al Awda actions include:
July 2007: At least five communiqués from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), including one in conjunction with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and one joint statement with Hamas, were distributed via Al-Awda’s main list serve. Nearly all of the communiqués expressed support for terrorist activity, extolling “martyrs,” encouraging the “resistance,” and detailing violence against Israeli troops. All these groups are designated enemy terrorists per the US State Department.
March 2007: Al-Awda issued a press release in support of Ahmad Saadat, the general secretary of the PFLP, who is currently in Israeli custody. The release encouraged “freedom loving people” to demand his release from prison.
November 16-19, 2006: Samia Halaby, a former Al-Awda co-chair, served on a delegation at the “Solidarity with the Resistance” conference in Beirut, which was organized by the Hezbollah and the Communist Party of Lebanon. The gathering was held to consolidate international support for “the resistance movements in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq, without distinction,” including Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the Iraqi insurgency. The conference’s final statement indicated that participants agreed “to establish a worldwide network against the American-Zionist project which does not only target the area but also humanity.” This, they agreed, would be achieved by “developing more and greater relations between leftist, democratic and nationalist currents and Islamic and resistance movements.”
July-September 2006: Al-Awda organized and co-sponsored several anti-Israel events around the country in response to the fighting between Israel and terrorist organizations in Gaza and Lebanon. These events were marked by support for terrorist groups, calls for the destruction of Israel, messages equating Zionism with Nazism and a proliferation of anti-Semitism.
September 30, Brooklyn, NY Rally co-sponsored by the Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum and the Coalition in Solidarity with the Arab People, which is made up of several groups, including Al-Awda, the International Action Center (IAC) and New Jersey Solidarity (ISM).
More than 100 protesters participated in the rally. One Al-Awda activist, Samia Halaby, displayed a t-shirt with the Hezbollah logo. Signs at the rally included, “U.S. and Israel OUT of Arab Land” and “Victory to the Intifada.” Speakers, representing the different groups involved in the rally, praised Hezbollah in their speeches. During her speech, Charlotte Kates of New Jersey Solidarity who is also a member of Al Awda and will be at the conference scheduled at the Hilton, stated: “Our troops are Hezbollah. Our troops are the Palestinian resistance, and we do support our troops. And we will struggle and we will build the resistance here until all Palestine is free.” An Al-Awda speaker declared: “We are all Hezbollah…I believe in armed struggle…Sixty years ago Arab lands were the Zionism free land…in less than another sixty years Palestine and Arab lands will be a Zionism free land again.” Another speaker led the crowd in chants of “long live the intifada!”
Al Awda’s motto is “From the river to the sea” meaning all of Israel is to be conquered from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean. The organization is not a human rights or peace group, but is in fact a support and propaganda arm for terrorists. Al Awda may tell you they are merely exercising their “freedom of speech”, but these events are specifically designed for training people on how to propagandize and attack American Jews, not just Israelis. They may point to some Jews in their ranks, but these are people of marginal Jewish ancestry who are usually Marxists, communists and anarchists. Huwaida Arraf, one of the co-founders of the umbrella group International Solidarity Movement (ISM), of which Al Awda is an active part, wrote a letter to the Washington Post in 2005 where she admitted the group works with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the PFLP. See:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021602027_2.html and
http://stoptheism.com/Default.asp?M=28&T=152
Since you have only been on your job a month or so, a brief history of what took place prior to the last conference at the Embassy Suites would be in order:
Once the administration at UC Riverside changed their mind about allowing Al Awda on campus, they rescheduled to be at the Embassy Suites. Lee Kaplan, who was researching the Al Awda conference contacted Dominic Acolino, the manager at the Embassy Suties. Mr. Acolino, after seeing all the evidence provided, stated that he found Al Awda’s activities reprehensible and would not have them back but felt he had a contract and it was less than a week before the event. Follow-ups with Kathy Shepherd in your public relations department resulted in rude stonewalling the issue despite the copious evidence provided and a petition started against the Hilton Hotel chain see:
http://www.petitiononline.com/hh052507/petition.html . I understand Ms. Shepherd no longer works at Hilton.
We wish to point out an excuse of short notice no longer applies this year since the next conference is scheduled for May 16-18, 2008 and the location of its taking place at the Hilton is not being announced on the Al Awda website because they are worried about the truth getting out in enough time now. The event being scheduled at your hotel in Anaheim on May16th –18th has been confirmed by anonymous Hilton staff aned reservations are being taken.. I also wish to point out your manager at the Embassy Suites, Mr. Acolino, last year said had he known the truth about the group he would not have scheduled them and would not do so again in the future.
We wish to also make you aware that Al Awda is part of the international boycott and divest from Israel campaign that urges people to not do business with companies that already do business with Israel. Included on this List are US corporations with Jewish management. Are you aware that Hilton Hotels is on the Al Awda boycott list ? Despite this being pointed out to Ms. Shepherd last year, she chose to ignore that fact. That information alone is enough to justify canceling any contracts you may have. See:
http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/modules37164.php and http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/modules14613.php .
We discovered the links above by going through another US Nazi Party website that used Al Awda’s official boycott logo on it, located at NSM88.com, 88 symbolizing Heil Hitler. That link has been removed but we have the evidence, also from archives posted on the homepage of www.StoptheISM.com .
We find it bizarre that Hilton might openly allow an anti-Semitic event on its grounds,
but even more so one that also attacks American businesses for doing business with or hiring Jews while even listing Hilton itself of the Boycott list!!!
We are hoping with this letter to get you to cancel this noxious event at your hotel. Certainly if another organization in America sought a conference at a Hilton Hotel such as the Ku Klux Klan that sought to condemn and boycott African Americans, Hilton would not allow it to take place on their property? We as part of the American Jewish and Christian communities ask for the same consideration and ask you to cancel this event. Conversely, if this is not done, we intend to reissue our petition against Hilton Hotels and will have more than five days to do so.
Please read carefully all the enclosed supporting documents and let us know what you intend to do. I personally look forward to hearing from you as new management at Hilton Hotels, and will do this time the right thing. Please review all the attached listed hyperlinks to more supporting evidence as an addendum to this letter, we believe you will find them an eye-opener.
Good luck in your new position.
Sincerely,
Lee Kaplan
National Director
DAFKA.org
StoptheISM.com
510 459 6944
leekaplan@dafka.org
1 Attachment below
The following articles should be printed out and sent with the letter as a packet to Hilton executives:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040910172809/http://radioislam.org/resistance/massacr.htm
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:Q_WeXEPXflAJ:www.stoptheism.com/%3FM%3D%26T%3D312+Raja+Chemayel+%2B+Lee+Kaplan&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
http://www.adl.org/israel/israel_protest_calendar_2006.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_(guerrilla_organization)
http://www.adl.org/israel/anti_israel/al_awda/default.asp
http://web.archive.org/web/20040910172809/http://radioislam.org/resistance/massacr.htm
http://www.adl.org/terrorism/symbols/popular_front_pa1.asp
http://www.adl.org/terrorism/symbols/al_aqsa_martyrs_2.asp
http://www.adl.org/main_Israel/hamas_facts.htm
http://www.adl.org/terrorism/symbols/hezbollah.asp
http://www.adl.org/israel/israel_protest_calendar_2006.asp
http://www.adl.org/israel/israel_protest_calendar_2006.asp
http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/modules14613.php (Note Hilton International among Al Awda’s boycott list).
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=47AD365E-6F00-4578-985A-E24DAB469EA8
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7D383BC4-3DB6-416B-8607-8E51053EF633
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=C8BB89FC-8346-4489-ABF0-6995E3669764
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:XEO-fdD9eUoJ:www.stoptheism.com/Default.asp%3FM%3D1%26T%3D165+Raja+Chemayel+%2B+Lee+Kaplan&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us Al Awda is part of the ISM.
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556680/posts
http://www.stoptheism.com/ Home page has expose on Electronic Intifada and Al Awda and has copies of Nazi website and former link to Boycott Israel campaign.
STOP THE ISM helps get two more ISM activists deported
from the Holy Land. "Starhawk" and Blake Murphy of
Boston2Palestine, given the boot. More to follow
soon. If you have any info on ISMers going to be human
shields for Palestinian terrorists like these two, please let us
know. Next time, hopefully we can get them into
jail.
SEE THE TRUTH ABOUT RACHEL CORRIE
ON YOUTUBE
Becky Johnson and Lee Kaplan present
Club Cruz on the death of Rachel Corrie and the ISM
This episode (#262) taped in March of 2005 for the 2nd
anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie includes the
actual IDF footage surveillance tape depicting the
circumstances of Corrie's death.
CLUB CRUZ ON RACHEL CORRIE
part one
part two
part three
The videos are also viewable at www.homelandsecurityus.com
We have another great video you can view at:
http://www.youtube.com/v/VFwxIaqoMpU&rel=1
Electronic Intifada's Nigel Parry: Proven Liar for ISM's Al Awda Also, did Al-Awda (Palestinian Right to Return Coalition) file an accurate Form 990 tax return in 2004?
Nigel Parry of the Electronic Intifada (part of the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society) recently wrote the following about Lee Kaplan of Stop the ISM. It is very poor judgment to make accusations like this while leaving proof all over the Internet that one’s own statements are blatantly false. Nigel Parry is not merely a liar, but an incompetent one in the bargain.
[Nigel Parry of the 501(c)(3) tax exempt Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society] that runs Electronic Intifada stated, "We simply cannot be bothered to deal with the other distortions and fantasy in Lee Kaplan’s 'SFSU to host Al Awda’s tax deductible war on the Jews' — found at http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/kaplan061706.htm — because it would take all weekend and the sun is out. But the one distortion that needs to be addressed is the following:
“Al-Awda operates another website known as the Electronic Intifada.” From the Canada Free Press website. “Free” apparently, to make up anything it pleases. (Screenshot by EI) The fact of the matter is that Al-Awda has absolutely no role in The Electronic Intifada, nor has it ever."
Mr. Parry will not enjoy the following, but he and the Electronic Intifada are going to take it from us nonetheless.
Unlike a good practitioner of taqqiya, Nigel Parry is too stupid even to tell believable lies. “The fact of the matter is that Al-Awda has absolutely no role in The Electronic Intifada, nor has it ever.” We shall see.
Electronicintifada.org is actually registered to Nigel Parry himself. Electronicintifada.com is, however, registered as follows.
MECCS/EI [Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society/ Electronic Intifada] 1507 E. 53rd St. 500 Chicago IL 60615 United States of America Registrar: DomainPeople Inc. Domain Name: electronicintifada.com Created on ………….Wed Aug 04 23: 59: 59 2004 Expires on ………….Sat Aug 09 23: 59: 59 2008 Record last updated on .Sat Aug 04 09: 41: 57 2007 Administrative Contact: MECCS/EI Ali Abunimah
…Chicago IL 60615 US
Pay close attention to “Ali Abunimah.” Here is an interesting excerpt from an Al-Awda FAQ page We have replaced @ in E-mail addresses with “at” to prevent harvesting by spam software.
Al-Awda and its structure
What is Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition?
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is a broad-based, non-partisan, global democratic association of grassroots activists and organizational representatives regardless of their religious, ethnic, political affiliation. Our objective is to educate the international community to fulfill its legal and moral obligations vis-a-vis Palestinian refugees based on The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International law and implementation of United Nations Resolutions upholding the inalienable right of Palestinians to return to their homeland and to restitution of all their confiscated and destroyed property.
…Questions, comments or suggestions to the steering committee may be directed at any time to prrc “at” mail.com. Members of Al-Awda’s email list may send their inquiries to al-awda-sc “at” egroups.com at any time. Questions, comments or suggestions to the steering committee may be directed at any time to prrc “at” mail.com. Members of Al-Awda’s email list may send their inquiries to al-awda-sc “at” egroups.com at any time. The current founding steering committee members and their direct contact information is indicated below:
Sawsan Abdulrahim, Chair, RORdocuments sawsan “at” al-awda.org Nader Abuljebain nader “at” al-awda.org Ali Abunimah, Co-Chair media committee ali “at” al-awda.org Maha Ayoub Co-Chair Mass Rally (DC) maha “at” al-awda.org Zahi Damuni Co-Chair Mass Rally (DC) zahi “at” al-awda.org (Tel: 717-832-1155) Eyas Hmouz, Chair RORNetwork eyas “at” al-awda.org (Tel: 901-935-7986) Merrie Najimy merrie “at” al-awda.org Mazin Qumsiyeh, Co-Chair Media mazin “at” al-awda.org Rabee’ Sahyoun, Chair London Rally rabee “at” al-awda.org
But Nigel Parry wants us to believe, “The fact of the matter is that Al-Awda has absolutely no role in The Electronic Intifada, nor has it ever.” Now, Mr. Parry, do you want to tell us that again? And don’t bother deleting these Web pages, because we have downloaded all of them for future reference. Furthermore, Al-Awda is, like the Electronic Intifada, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization whose own activities require considerable scrutiny.
SPAT UPON, THREATENED, WE STOOD FOR PALESTINE
by Ali Abunimah
May 6, 2001
CHICAGO — \”Arafat is filthy swine, there is no Palestine,\” and \”Thank you for killing my cousins in Israel,\” were some of the more polite slogans shouted at Al-Awda activist Benjamin Doherty and me as we protested silently at the annual \”Walk With Israel\” on Chicago\’s lakefront today, Sunday. The Jewish United Fund (JUF)-sponsored event, a fundraiser for Israel attended by over a thousand local Zionists, was billed as a \”Family Walk.\” Despite this, a man with his two young daughters was not the only one to give us the finger and shout \”F**k You\” as we stood, just the two of us, surrounded by a half dozen police officers, on a pleasant late spring day by Lake Michigan.
But Mr. Parry said ” Al-Awda has absolutely no role in The Electronic Intifada, nor has it ever.” How does this statement reconcile with the Electronic Intifada’s leadership team as listed here–not at Lee Kaplan’s Web site, but at your own?
EI Team
Executive Director Ali Abunimah Managing Editor Maureen Clare Murphy Assistant Editor Matthew Cassel Technologist Benjamin Doherty DesignKen Harper Contributing Editor Arjan El Fassed (he is Al Awda co-founder) Contributing Editor Laurie King
In fact, Mr. Parry, we see another name here, Arjan El Fassed. Let’s take a good look at him.
4 January 2001 AL-AWDA: “NO RETURN, NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE” EXPOSING THE INHERENT RACISM OF ZIONIST ISRAELI PEACE GROUPS
PRRC strongly believes that the struggle for peace and justice must be democratic and reflect the Palestinians’ desire and right to return. PRRC appeals to people of conscience and peace advocates to seize the opportunity now to help raise Palestinian voices that have been silenced for 52 years for a just and sustainable peace rooted in granting the Palestinian people their legitimate right to freedom and return.
For further information or to arrange interviews contact:
In the United States: Elias A. Rashmawi Tel: (530) 304-4573, Amira Solh Tel: (212) 529-6934 In Europe: Arjan El Fassed Tel: +31 (6) 16854541
Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition P.O.Box 401 Hummelstown, Pa 17036
Ali Abunimah, whom Nigel Parry would have us believe has nothing to do with Al-Awda, also wrote the following.
DEMAND U.S. INVESTIGATE SHARON FOR WAR CRIMES
By Ali Abunimah
CALL, EMAIL, FAX-IN TODAY
DEMAND U.S. INVESTIGATE SHARON FOR WAR CRIMES
Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC) calls on all people of conscience to call, email, and/or fax the White House and State Department to express their concern about the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the United States, and to demand that the United States cooperate in bringing Sharon to justice on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity before, during and after Israel’s 1982 invasion and occupation of Lebanon.
Please cc your correspondence to Al-Awda-Alerts “at” mail.com
Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition P.O.Box 401 Hummelstown, Pa 17036 Fax: (717) 832-1123 E-mail: prrc “at” mail.com WWW: al-awda.org
Ali Abunimah ali “at” abunimah.org http://www.abunimah.org
Again, Nigel Parry of the 501(c)(3) tax exempt Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society would have us believe, “The fact of the matter is that Al-Awda has absolutely no role in The Electronic Intifada, nor has it ever.” We hope he exucses us for being at least slightly incredulous of this claim in light of the following. Again, this is from Al-Awda.org, not Lee Kaplan, Omdurman.org, or other pro-Civilization sources.
DON’T LET ETHNIC CLEANSING WIN - Prevent the Erosion of International Law 3 January 2001
Washington, DC (January 3, 2001) - In a letter sent to the Palestinian Authority, the United States and the European Union, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition (known in Arabic as Al-Awda) wrote that “no agreement, negotiations or parties which purport to trade away the right of return or any other inalienable rights can have any legal basis and cannot bind or compel the Palestinian people to end the struggle for the fulfillment of their internationally recognized rights.”
…For further information or to arrange interviews contact:
In the United States: Ali Abunimah Tel: (312) 806-7153 In Europe: Arjan El Fassed Tel: +31 (6) 16854541
Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition P.O.Box 401 Hummelstown, Pa 17036 …WWW: http://al-awda.org
Didn’t we just see those two names somewhere else? Of course we did:
Electronic Intifada’s leadership team
EI Team
Executive Director Ali Abunimah Managing Editor Maureen Clare Murphy Assistant Editor Matthew Cassel Technologist Benjamin Doherty Design Ken Harper Contributing Editor Arjan El Fassed Contributing Editor Laurie King
Uh-huh. “”The fact of the matter is that Al-Awda has absolutely no role in The Electronic Intifada, nor has it ever.” Now let’s take a look at yet another unsavory Electronic Intifada and Al-Awda connection: boycottisraeligoods.org

And who links to Boycott Israeli Goods? Courtesy of archive.org, we have the National Socialist Movement (America’s Nazi Party), nsm88.org. 88 = white supremacist code for “Heil Hitler,” noting that H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.

So what we have is a Web page that, while touting both Al-Awda and Electronic Intifada, is touted in turn by genuine Nazis.
Finally, let’s take a look at the page that Nigel Parry cites in his attack on Lee Kaplan. Perhaps he would have done better to not attract our attention to it, or Al-Awda in general.
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and the General Union of Palestine Students at SFSU are proud to announce the Fourth International Al-Awda Convention on July 14-16, 2006 in San Francisco, CA. It will be a strategic planning conference focused on adapting to shifting realities and rising to meet the challenges of our era. In working for return, we will highlight two main themes:
1. Political and material isolation of the State of Israel, 2. Political and material support of the Palestinian refugee population.
…About the Convention
Fifty-eight years have passed since the great catastrophe (al-Nakba) that resulted in the imposition in Palestine of ‘Israel’, one of the most exclusionary-racist states in modern history, and the displacement of the largest and longest suffering refugee population in modern times.
Some questions might arise as to the suitability of “Political and material isolation of the State of Israel” as an appropriate goal for a 501(c)(3) tax exempt entity. (Note also Al-Awda’s denial of Israel’s right to exist.) Instead of delving into those questions, however, we will look at Al-Awda’s responsibility to provide accurate information to the Internal Revenue Service–a responsibility that is not open to question. Here is what the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition told the Internal Revenue Service in 2004

Here is what the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition actually did in 2004 From http://www.al-awda.org/actionalerts/
Attempts to influence legislation are on record The following are the relevant excerpts from the indicated pages but you can read the entire pages at the indicated links to Al-Awda’s own site. The entire pages have, incidentally, been downloaded and saved in case they suddenly “vanish” now that they are being displayed side by side with Al-Awda’s Form 990.
http://www.al-awda.org/thankcongressmemberswhorefused/ 15 July 2004 [Time period covered by the Form 990 in question] For Immediate Release
Thank Congress Members Who Refused!
The House of Representatives voted for Resolution 713, which deplores the International Court of Justice advisory opinion finding that the Apartheid Wall Israel is building in the West Bank is illegal. There were 361 yeas, 45 nays, 13 presents, and 14 not voting.
Although the resolution passed, a significant number of Members of Congress REFUSED to condemn the International Court of Justice for upholding the standards of human rights and international law in regards to the Wall.
ACTION REQUESTED
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition calls on its members and all supporters of human rights to phone and thank the members of Congress who voted NAY or present against House Resolution 713.
House members can be reached through the Capitol switchboard toll free at: 1-877-331-2000

http://www.al-awda.org/urgentcallnow/ URGENT - CALL NOW! For Immediate Release 14 July 2004 [Time period covered by the Form 990 in question]
AL-AWDA ALERT - URGENT - CALL NOW!
A resolution criticizing the International Court of Justice advisory opinion, which determined Israel’s Apartheid Wall violates International Law and should be dismantled, is expected to be brought to the House floor today, Wednesday July 14, 2004. The resolution also expresses support for Israel’s ‘right’ to continue building the Wall. In addition, the house will be voting, possibly tomorrow, on FY05 Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill.
URGENT ACTION
Please contact your Representative’s office as soon as possible. The Capitol switch board is toll free at 877-331-2000.
…Urge your representative to OPPOSE any resolution supporting Israel’s Apartheid Wall. The Apartheid Wall violates International Law and should be dismantled as has been determined by the International Court of Justice advisory opinion at the Hague. Urge your representative to VOTE AGAINST the FY05 Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill and specifically to cut all aid to Israel. Involving the American people in funding Israeli abuses of international law and human rights is unacceptable. It is also contrary to the Arms Export Control Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. Please call House members NOW and urge them to OPPOSE any resolution supporting Israel’s Apartheid Wall and to VOTE AGAINST the FY05 Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill.
House members can be reached through the Capitol switchboard toll free at 877-331-2000.

http://www.al-awda.org/urgentactioncallsenatenow/ URGENT ACTION - CALL SENATE NOW! Update 7 September 2004 [time period covered by the Form 990 in question]
According to some reports, it seems the Senate may soon be voting (possibly this week) on Resolution 408 which condemns the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its advisory opinion that Israel’s Apartheid Wall is illegal.
Below is Al-Awda’s national alert which was issued 21 July 2004 before Senate went on summer recess. The alert provides relevant talking points and contact info etc.
Please call and write your Senators even if you did so before!
URGENT ACTION - CALL SENATE NOW!
For Immediate Release 21 July 2004
Following the passage of House of Representatives’ Resolution 713, the Senate is now considering its own Resolution 408 which condemns the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its advisory opinion ruling that Israel’s Apartheid Wall is illegal. Passage of such a resolution by the Senate would add to the US’s complicity in Israel’s defiance of International Law and world opinion. Just yesterday, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly by 150 to 6 with 10 abstentions to demand that Israel comply with the ICJ opinion to dismantle the illegal wall it is building in the West Bank.
 Res ipsa loquitur, the thing speaks for itself. Al-Awda’s Form 990 tax return for 2000, in conjunction with these Action Alerts from its own Web pages, pretty much speak for themselves. Nigel Parry’s statement about no connection between Electronic Intifada and Al Awda, in conjunction with the well-documented Al-Awda ties of two Electronic Intifada leaders, also make our point far more clearly than we, or Lee Kaplan, could possibly do.
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A LITTLE MORE INFO ON NIGEL PARRY AND ASSOCIATES:
I've written for the last four years that Jewish Voice for Peace is an Arab front group established to convince American Jews that they can still be good Jews but advocate the destruction of the Jewish state. In the past, the JVOP newsletter has written that it is doubtful Jews ever lived in the Holy Land at all, and that the First Temple and Exodus from Egypt were myths. Also, claims that Jews in Israel are really descendents of Khazarians from southern Georgia in Russia were mentioned. These were some of the gems allegedly written by Mitchell Plitnick, the former head of the JVOP.
As the result of an audit of JVOP, Plitnick was downgraded from his position as head of JVOP and a new leader was brought in from the radical anti-Israel leftist front in Israel. Cecilie Surasky, Plitnick's replacement as mouthpiece for the JVOP started a blog titled Muzzlewatch, where she tried to present the image that Jews who were less-than-supportive of Israel were being stifled in their freedom of speech.
Now new information comes out about Cecilie Surasky. In 2004, Ms. Surasky wrote an editorial for the Al Awda-linked website Electronic Intifada, run by the former webmaster for Bir Zeit University (stronghold for Hamas recruitment) named Nigel Parry.
Parry has accused me of fabricating half of what I write and insists that Al Awda has absolutely nothing to do with Electronic Intifada and vice versa. I have uncovered enough evidence and proof that it does, since two of the co-founders of Electronic Intifada, Arjan El-Fassed and Ali Abunimah are respectively a co-founder of Al Awda and leader of Al Awda. The source of this information?
Nigel Parry himself.
What is significant about Al Awda's links to Electronic Intifada and Cecilie Suransky of Jewish Vocie for Peace? Well, for one thing I've proven that Al Awda, besides being highly anti-Semitic and advocating for the total annihilation of Israel also is allied with the American Nazi Party. It was this revelation that got the international Al Awda conference kicked off the UC Riverside campus about six months ago by me. Cecilie Surasky in 2004 did not just have a letter to the editor published on the Electronic Intifada website, she wrote an editorial, that is an official poistion for the website Electronic Intifada, part of the Al Awda/US Nazi Party collaboration against Israel and, by extension, all Jews.
We'll have a more detailed breakdown of all of this on my websites at StoptheISM.com and DAFKA.org very soon. Bill Levinson, an expert researcher at Stop the ISM will also have the story on the Israpundit.com weblog soon too.
Ms. Surasky, you have been outted, not as a "Jew of conscience" against Israel, but as a shill for the anti-Semites and pro-Nazis in Al Awda and at Electronic Intifada.
Who do you think will probably replace you next at Jewish Voice for Peace?
ABOUT ISM AFFILIATED GROUPS CPT AND INTERFAITH PEACE BUILDERS
CHRISTIAN PEACEMAKER TEAMS AND INTERFAITH PEACE BUILDERS ARE NO PEACE GROUPS BUT DECEPTIVE WAYS OF WAGING WAR ON ISRAEL
Note: For more on CPT, go to www.homelandsecurityus.com and enter in the search engine DAFKA National Director Lee Kaplan's name in the search engine. There you will find in his archive the article The Strange Case of Joseph Smith who was employed by the CPT. At the same time google the article at the Israel National News by Mr. Kaplan "A Leftist Judge is Helping to Destroy Israel" about Scott Kennedy and the Interfaith Peace Builders. Understand these groups are not "peace groups", but groups that use the word "peace" to make war on Israel. See below:
Christian Peacemaker Teams: Anti-Israel campaigning under the guise of ´peacemaking´ NGO Monitor Reports January 10, 2008 For annotated version: www.ngo-monitor.org/article.php?operation=print&id=1763
Summary:
CPT states that it "places violence-reduction teams in crisis situations and militarized areas around the world at the invitation of local peace and human rights workers." In contrast, CPT partners with ISM, ICAHD, Sabeel and others in promoting the Durban Strategy of boycotts, divestment, and identification of Israel as the new apartheid South Africa. Speaker's bureau promotes its highly one-sided and politicized approach to the conflict, which ignores Palestinian terrorism in order to demonize Israeli actions and delegitmize its right to self defense. A CPT speaker addressed the February 2006 'Israeli Apartheid Conference' at the University of Toronto with a speech entitled "Al-Khalil (Hebron): The Effects of Apartheid on a West Bank City."
See also: NGO Monitor's correspondence with CPT on this report
"Correspondence between Alwyn Knight, member of Christian Peacemaker Teams and Ardie Geldman, resident of Efrat."
"Interfaith Peace Builders/AFSC Delegations "Misunderstanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"
Introduction:
As NGO Monitor has reported in the past, the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) program was founded in Chicago in 1986 as an initiative of the Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section, the Church of the Brethren Office of Peace and Justice, and other Christian groups. This report focuses on CPT's activities related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in the last two years (fall 2005 - fall 2007), and supplies updated funding information, analysis of CPT publications, and information on the group's partnerships with other NGOs.
Sources of funding (updated):
According to its website, CPT is funded primarily through donations from members of affiliated churches based in the USA and the UK. According to its most recent financial report (for 2006), CPT received donations from individuals totaling $610,700; and $409,500 from Canadian and American sources described as "congregations, grants, and delegations," which includes the Mennonite Church Canada, Mennonite Church USA, and others.
CPT's stated mandate and "peace-makers" delegations:
CPT states that it "places violence-reduction teams in crisis situations and militarized areas around the world at the invitation of local peace and human rights workers." The official purpose of these delegations is "to understand conflict through visits with grassroots leaders, community members, church and human rights workers, legislators and officials," "encourage individuals and communities experiencing violence," and "challenge violations of human rights." CPT runs short-term (7-14 day) tours by "conflict resolution team" delegations to Palestinian population centers, as well as longer-term "peacemaker teams" based in these areas. According to the CPT website, delegation team-members, when "not on project site live [.] in their home communities and are available for short-term organizing, speaking, training, or other peace work."
While CPT is active in six countries (Columbia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Canada, Northern Iraq, and the United States) in addition to Israel and the Palestinian territories, the group's heavy focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is evident in the relative number of CPT delegation teams sent to the region. 7 out of 11 Christian Peacemaker Teams delegations scheduled for the period of November 2007-November 2008 are to "Palestine/Israel".
CPT's involvement in the Durban Strategy:
CPT continues to play an active role in the international NGO campaign to delegitimize Israel by identifying it with apartheid South Africa and promoting boycotts and divestment (the "Durban Strategy"). The CPT delegation in Hebron hosted "solidarity visits" in the March 2006 "global advocacy week concerning the situation in Palestine and Israel." Led by Palestinian Christian NGO Sabeel and the Joint Advocacy initiative of the East Jerusalem YMCA, this advocacy week claimed to "alleviate Palestinian suffering," but focused all criticism on Israel, and included meetings with biased and politicized NGOs such as ICAHD. CPT's website offers readers links to publications by the 'Stop the Apartheid Wall' anti-Israel campaign. In 2007, CPT joined with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), in its "Olive Harvest Campaign." ISM's activities endanger the lives of foreign 'peace volunteers,' and sabotage important security measures. (In March 2003 Israeli troops captured a senior Islamic Jihad member hiding in an ISM office in Jenin).
CPT members regularly appear in forums which promote the Durban Strategy, facilitated by the NGO's "Speakers Bureau". Nathan Bender, a CPT speaker, addressed the February 2006 'Israeli Apartheid Conference' at the University of Toronto on the subject of "Al-Khalil (Hebron): The Effects of Apartheid on a West Bank City." Other speeches dealt with topics including "South Africa & Israel: the Apartheid Connection" and "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and the Right of Return." Kathleen Kern, another member of CPT's Speakers Bureau, wrote in a CPT report, "Israels [sic] treatment of its Arab population is a form of apartheid, plain and simple."
Analysis of recent CPT publications:
CPT's long-term presence in Hebron leads the NGO's "Campaign for Secure Dwellings", which according to the CPT website, consists of "a network of congregations in North America and Europe working to end the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip." CPT coordinates the program in cooperation with the Palestinian Land Defense Committee, Rabbis for Human Rights, and the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD). Despite claiming to provide "a violence-reduction presence with street patrols," CPT delegations in Hebron consistently highlight Palestinian victimization using evocative language, while erasing the context of terror from their reports. In this, CPT has become a party to the conflict.
Tales from Hebron
CPT's winter 2006 summary report on its work in the West Bank - 'Palestine: Still Under Occupation' offers so-called eye-witness testimony, emotionally charged anecdotes, and blanket condemnation of the Israeli army (IDF), with no mention of terrorism. In a piece entitled, "Strangers in my Home," the IDF search of a Palestinian home is depicted as an "invasion," and in another CPT member's report, Israeli soldiers are vilified:
"Today I will walk the streets of Hebron and witness young Palestinian men being detained for hours. I will hear Israeli soldiers spew hatred towards 'Arabs'. I will listen to the stories of Palestinian families whose homes have been invaded, their possessions thrown about, their men beaten or imprisoned."
Neither the introduction to this report, nor any of the five CPT member stories, acknowledge the context of terrorism, including, for example, an attack in the Hebron area in 2005, and the arrests in Hebron in January 2006 (the specific period which the CPT report refers to) of 5 members of a Hamas cell responsible for the murder of 6 Israelis. This context does not excuse improper IDF actions, but CPT's distorted portrayal of the situation in Hebron delegitimizes Israel's right to self-defense.
An October 2007 CPT article again ignores the terrorist threat in Hebron and denies any Palestinian responsibility or agency in the conflict. The author condemns the Israeli soldiers for ordering Palestinian shopkeepers to stop selling toy guns, and for confiscating them from children. She comments that "it would be even less dangerous if [the soldier] were not walking in a Palestinian area with a real gun." In the United States, CPT launched its "Violence is not Child's Play" campaign to urge Church and community groups to join in "challenging retail stores that market violent toys and games to children." Yet in Hebron the Peacemakers ignore the real dangers to children in a complex conflict zone (2 Palestinian children were killed in January 2005 and July 2007, when soldiers mistook their toy guns for real ones), and the widespread indoctrination of Palestinian children into a culture of violence, in order to condemn Israeli actions.
Reliance on the reporting of other politicized NGOs
CPT publications frequently cite and rely on the data and reports of other highly politicized NGOs that lack credibility. A spring 2007 CPT report - 'At-Tuwani: Seven Homes Demolished' - uses Israel Coalition Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). EU-funded ICAHD claims, like CPT, to be "a non-violent, direct-action group." However, as NGO Monitor has documented, ICAHD advances a highly one-sided view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and actively promotes the "Durban strategy" (for a refutation of ICAHD's claims see Justus Weiner, "Illegal Construction in Jerusalem"). Other reports by CPT rely on research from B'Tselem, a group whose political bias and distortions have been documented in detail by NGO Monitor. In addition, on its website CPT lists as a partner the NGO Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ), an organization which campaigns for divestment from Israel and publishes highly politicized reports which demonize Israel. CPT also reports working with Ta'ayush, an NGO that uses apartheid language in its criticism of Israel.
Conclusion
CPT delegations claim to provide a "non violent peacemaking" presence in Hebron, but their public statements reveal their highly one-sided and politicized approach. Facilitated by CPT publications and the speakers bureau, they selectively report their experiences in order to delegitimize Israeli actions and erase any Palestinian responsibility
STOP THE ISM'S LEE KAPLAN WILL BE ON THE GATHERING STORM RADIO SHOW JAN. 11th, 2008 FROM 12:30 PM-1:00 PM TO DISCUSS LIONHEART WHO IS BEING THREATENED WITH ARREST IN THE UK FOR "HATE CRIMES" FOR STARTING A BLOG ABOUT MILITANT ISLAMISTS IN THE UK. LIONHEART WAS THE STOP THE ISM VOLUNTEER WHO BROUGHT OUT PHOTOS OF ISM LEADERS WIELDING AK-47 RIFLES IN THE PRESENCE OF AN AL AKSA MARTYRS BRIGADE TERRORIST.
TUNE IN AT: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-gathering-storm AND GOOGLE THE ISM-TERROR CONNECTION BY LEE KAPLAN FOR MORE INFO.OR LISTEN LATER ON PODCAST FROM ARCHIVE.
Note our new email address: info@StoptheISM.com . Read breaking news to the left side of this screen, in our Information section also, as well as below. Check out ISM Watch for photos of ISM individuals we have info on that we are trying to have prosecuted. Visit our Rogues Gallery also.
BOSTON TO PALESTINE ISM ACTIVIST MARTY FEDERMAN SIGHTED IN ISRAEL. THIS FAT PHONY WEARS A KIPPAH SO EVERYONE WILL THINK HE'S A PIOUS JEW WHEN HIS REAL GOAL IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH STATE AND WORKING UNDERCOVER TO AID THE ISM. BELOW IS A PHOTO OF HIM. IF YOU SEE HIM IN ISRAEL BE SURE TO NOTIFY THE BORDER POLICE IMMEDIATELY. HE SHOULD BE DEPORTED.

FEDERMAN PROTESTS REGULARLY AGAINST THE SECURITY FENCE THAT SAVES ISRAELI LIVES.
HE HAS BEEN SIGHTED DEMONSTRATING WITH VIRULENTLY ANTI-SEMITIC ARAB GROUPS IN BOSTON.

OTHER BOSTON TO PALESTINE ISM CREEPS SIGHTED IN ISRAEL RECENTLY ARE
SKIP SCHIEL 
SCHIEL WAS SIGHTED WITH FEDERMAN IN THE WEST BANK IN NOVEMBER INTERFERING WITH THE SECURITY FENCE. THESE ARE NOT PEACE ACTIVISTS. THEY ARE HUMAN SHIELDS AND ENABLERS FOR
PALESTINIAN TERROR GROUPS . OTHER BOSTON TO PALESTINE ACTIVISTS
TO LOOK FOR IN THE HOLY LAND INCLUDE:
ALAN MEYERS, HILDA SILVERMAN, and NANCY MURRAY.
IF YOU MEET ANY OF THESE PEOPLE AND CAN FIND OUT IF THEIR VISAS
ARE EXPIRED, NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY AT Info@StoptheISM.COM.
ALSO NOTE:
TOKYO ROSE STYLE ISM ACTIVIST ANNA BALTZER IS TOURING US CHURCHES AGAIN
TELLING LIES ABOUT ISRAEL FOR HER ISM BOSSES IN THE INTERNATIONAL WOMENS PEACE SERVICE. BALTZER LIES ABOUT ISRAELI PRACTICES IN THE WEST BANK AND TELLS PHONY STORIES ABOUT WOMEN MISCARRYING BABIES DUE TO THE IDF. SHE MAKES ALLUSIONS TO ISRAELI SOLDIERS AS BEING LIKE NAZIS.
BALTZER IS CURRENTLY TOURING CHURCHES IN THE US. IF IN ISRAEL< CONTACT THE BORDER POLICE AND ASK THEM NOT TO READMIT HER. WE SAW HER PRESENTATION AT A SABEEL CONFERENCE IN BERKELEY WHERE SHE REPEATEDLY ACCUSED ISRAELOF ATROCITIES SHE COULD NOT SUBSTANTIATE.
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